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The Song
"Stairway To Heaven" is one of the most interesting songs ever in terms of song form. Everything about it breaks the rules of what we consider "pop song" form, but that's what makes it so cool. Here's what the form looks like:
Intro (8 bars of guitar), Intro (16 bars with Mellotron), Verse (20 bars), Interlude (8 bars), B section (8 bars), Verse (8 bars), Interlude (1 bar), B section (16 bars), Verse (16 bars), Interlude (1 bar), B section (16 bars), Verse (16 bars), Interlude (1 bar)
That's just the first part of the song! As you can see, every section is somewhat different length-wise. Now comes the C section up-tempo outro:
Intro (2 bars of 7/8), Guitar Solo (36 bars), Vocal (36 bars), Outro (16 bars), Ending
There are a couple of interesting things here. First of all the C section intro is in 7, which is highly unusual for a rock song, then both the solo and vocal are 36 bars each, or 9 times through the pattern instead of 8. Once again, this is so much different than what you'd expect, yet it works.
The Arrangement
The arrangement for "Stairway" is brilliant in that there are only 7 instruments, yet it sounds much bigger.
The beginning of the song is mostly acoustic guitar and mellotron flutes, and a Fender Rhodes electric piano holds down the bass from the 1st B section onwards to the C section. On the 4rth verse, the drums and bass enter, along with a 12 string electric. A Telecaster then doubles the riff during the interludes. Take notice that the electric piano continues to play even after the bass enters, with the bass mostly (but not always) doubling it.
The C section outro is built around the 12 string electric, bass and drums, and the solo Telecaster (in one of Pagey's best solos). On the 7th time through the pattern, a slide guitar enters with a line that answers the solo electric guitar. When the vocal enters it's back to the bass, drums and 12 string, with the Telecaster playing an answer line on the 3rd time through the pattern. On the 8th time through, the chords are accented, but continue through for a 9th time (really unusual!). The song then ends with a solo vocal, which is, once again, unusual.
The Sound
"Stairway" was recorded on 16 track at Island Studios in London as well as on location at Headley Grange using the Rolling Stones mobile studio. The acoustic guitar on the intro is interesting in that it's panned to the left with a somewhat long plate reverb that you hear more on the right side. Later in the song, the 12 string is pretty much bathed in this reverb.
The drums are heavily compressed, and are actually recorded in stereo. This, in fact, might have been one of the earliest examples of stereo drums, but it's a pretty mild version, with just a little of the crash cymbal and floor tom slightly panned to the left.
The vocal has a very short delayed plate reverb to put it in an environment, but it's still pretty much in the forefront of the band.
The Production
Jimmy Page considers this his masterpiece and I think so to, although you have to give props to bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones for his arrangement skills for the keyboards. The mellotron parts could have been boring if they were repeated with every section, but each section is different, which keeps it interesting.
The song starts quietly, builds to a crescendo, and ends almost in silence, in an excellent example of tension and release. Listen how the instruments weave in and out of the track, even though the instrumentation and tracks are limited. Remember that the song is 8:03 and you want to listen to the whole thing all the way through. That truly is the sign of a masterpiece.
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I thought I had an original idea recently only to find that thousands of others were way ahead of me. I got to thinking about cemeteries and their potential for garden farming while making death a little less abhorrent. That's when I had this "new" idea that actually is very old but is now a new movement.
Have you heard about "green burials"? A growing number of people want to be buried without toxic embalming fluids like formaldehyde, in a shroud or cardboard box or cheap, wooden, readily-biodegradable coffin. Since our bodies are going to decompose no matter what (even in mummification), why not let them return to life-giving humus naturally, thereby enriching the soil?
So I've been entertaining myself with a bizarre vision of cemeteries as gardens and orchards of lush food plants fertilized by all that nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, trace elements and organic matter that dead bodies would provide. Could human culture advance toward the true definition of immortality, the enfolding of our remains back into the food chain to contribute to the health of the environment even in death?
I see on Google that every year we are burying 90,000 tons of steel caskets, 14,000 tons of steel vaults, 2700 tons of copper and bronze caskets, 1,636,000 tons of reinforced concrete, and some 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid, mostly formaldehyde which destroys microbial life in the soil. Even if these numbers are not quite accurate, they make the point very well.
Green burial is not a new idea. Jewish law forbids embalming and if I've got my research correct, Islamic law encourages burying bodies in a simple shroud. It seems to be more a Western culture thing to make a big show of trying to slow down the decomposition of human remains. England requires coffin burial by law, for example. In the U.S., there are many regulations in some areas and remarkably few in others, considering our penchant for making rules about everything. The green burial people are working this all out to keep everything legal.
My imagination leaps forward to a time when enlightenment finally comes to the human race. Cemeteries become lush gardens of fruits, grains, vegetables, and trees for food and for building materials (coffins?) with a farmer's market at the entrance to sell the produce. Tombstones could be shaped like benches (there is a cemetery in Washington D.C. where this is already true) for visitors to rest from weeding their cemetery garden plots, or from pruning their cemetery trees, or just to relax while eating lunch or engaging in idle conversation. That just might encourage them to share memories of their loved ones now enriching their plants. The dead in this way would achieve a real kind of immortality. Cemetery gardeners might even rest there in their lovely Edenic surroundings and say nice things about living people, even the ones they differ with politically.
Cemeteries could be oases of wildlife as some of them already are. Rare native prairie flowers sometimes show up in old Midwestern cemeteries. A couple of winters ago, the cemetery just down the road from our place had a rare visit from flocks of red crossbills, eating seeds out of the cones of hemlock trees which are not native here like they are in the crossbill's arboreal forests in the far north. There was a shortage of crossbill food in the far north that year and the birds found life in our sanctuary of the dead.
I wonder if anyone has calculated the fertilizer value of all the human bodies we encase in metal and concrete every year, or in rare, moisture-resistant woods from endangered tree species.

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Some of the more enlightened folks in this great land know that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. One such player is Jared Dudley.
"Just because our team's bad," he said to BSotS' own Jim Coughenour and SB Nation's Kris Habbas on Friday's podcast. "I don't want to jump off. No."
Listen to the whole, awesome podcast here. Really, it's worth your time.
He acknowledged that Suns players are definitely frustrated, but disavowed us of the notion that they all want out.
"I think there's a lot of frustration, and there should be frustration built in too," he said. "I don't care what anyone tells you. If you're on a team that's losing the way we are, people should be frustrated, annoyed, but still upbeat at practice to want to get better. So there's a difference. You can't be frustrated that you don't want to be a part of it.
"I am frustrated that we're losing. I'm tired of seeing the same mistakes. But I'm willing to put the work in to make those mistakes be very limited, if not at all."
He acknowledged the hanging heads we all see late in games, and that Luis Scola lamented earlier in the year while the notion was still newsworthy for post-game quotes.
"I definitely think the losses and the fourth quarters where a team makes a run and we can't buy a bucket, guys are like 'here we go again' happens," Dudley said.
"But I definitely see Lindsey [Hunter] with the discipline and accountability in practice that the ownership wanted."
Dudley opined that, if he is traded, he would not want to go to another bad team. But even rather than go to a good team, he'd simply rather stay right where he is.
"It's easy to be in a good mood when you're winning," he said. "When you're losing, you need to stay in the gym, stay on guys. You never want to leave. I'll be the first one to tell you that if I had to leave, I don't want to go to a team that's bad.
"Phoenix, city-wise, is one of the top 5 destinations to go to, so why not just stay here and just get better?"
Jared Dudley is a realist. He knows that, once Nash and Hill left after Amare a couple of years ago, the Suns were going to struggle for a while to develop a new identity and to develop new stars to carry the team going forward.
He also knows he is not that new star. He won't be making any All-Star games, or joining the Dunk Contest or anything like that. And there's no "easy button" to get those new stars.
"Sometimes it takes a while," he said. "You gotta go through a couple dog years to get Derrick Rose or be the Thunder with Durant and Westbrook. I understand that.
"I know I'm a leader here, I know my role here. Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. I've been through the lows here and highs, all the way to the Western Conference Finals. For me personally, I can only do the stuff that I can control. And for me its working on my game and getting better each year. Being a positive attitude for the Suns."
Ideally, the Suns would be able to keep Dudley through this transition and have him as their veteran locker room leader when the team starts winning regularly again. Any team with young guys as their best talents need leadership on the court and the sidelines. Dudley would be a great fit in that role.
But before you can take advantage of that veteran leader to guide the new stars, you need those new stars. Otherwise, Dudley is just a captain on a sinking ship.
Dudley is 27 now and will be nearing the end of his contract when the Suns realistically start winning again.
Is it smart to keep him around before the going gets good again?
Or is it smarter to trade your best asset at the height of his value to a team willing to give up a good young player in return, one with a higher upside than Dudley?
Just be glad you're not the GM of the Suns. Tough decision indeed.


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Sculptor, born Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, 1856, died Edinburgh, 29 April 1938. J.P. MacGillivray was brought up and educated in Edinburgh. In 1872 he became studio assistant to William Brodie, where he remained for six years; then, around 1880, he spent two years in the studio of John Mossman in Glasgow. He returned to Edinburgh in 1894 and executed many portrait busts, monuments and statues, becoming a regular exhibitor at the Royal Scottish Academy where he was elected A.R.S.A. in 1892 and R.S.A. in 1901. He is best known for his statue of Robert Burns at Irvine, and of Thomas Carlyle and the figure of 'Historia' for the Gladstone Memorial in Edinburgh. — Tilbrook, Truth, Beauty, and Design, p 54.
Contemporary Criticism
Works in the round
- Hypnos, 1900
- A Gipsy Girl, before 1899
- The 3rd Marquess of Bute, c. 1930
- John Knox
- La Flandre
- The Gladstone Memorial, Edinburgh
Works in relief
- Francesco Petrarca
- Hannah Findlay, c. 1896
- Thomas Carlyle
- Burns and Highland Mary, before 1899
- Rhythm, before 1899
- Untitled Classical Scene
- Monument to Dr. Peter Lowe
- Monument to James Hedderwick, LLD
- Ottilie, Daughter of Lord M'Laren
- Angel guiding a soul, c. 1899
- Robert Fergusson
- Margaret Oliphant
Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
Tilbrook, Adrian J. Truth, Beauty, and Design: Victorian, Edwardian, and Later Decorative Art. Exhibition catalogue. London: Adrian J. Tilbrook and Fischer Fine Art, 1986.
W. M. G. "Studio-Talk." The Studio. 16 (1899): 202-5.
Woodward, Robin Lee. "Pittendrigh MacGillivray." Virtue and Vision: Sculpture in Scotland, 1540-1900. Ed. Fiona Pearson. Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland. 1991. 98-103.
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The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2012 (9th Annual)
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40) It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms! — January Jones
39) Y'all better vote for f——g Obama, OK? For better or for worse, we have a black Muslim in the White House. Now, …that's some amazing s—-t. It means there is hope in this country. — Madonna
38) Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world. — Harry Reid
37) Every single thing in my life is built around race. — Jamie Foxx
36) The private sector is doing fine. — Barack Obama
35) All over Montana, you can walk into a bar, a café or even a school or a courthouse and just listen for a while as people talk to each other. And you will hear somebody, before very long, say something outrageously racist. — Montana's Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer
34) I'm asking everybody here, I'm asking everybody watching this nationwide to waste your vote on me. — Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson
33) You know, kids have good instincts. They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullshitter, I can tell.' — Barack Obama
32) It's very rare that I come to an event where I'm like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person. — Barack Obama
31) (Mitt Romney) had (a fundraiser) in Israel with a bunch of diamond merchants, we don't know the names of them. — Bob Beckel
30) They are happy to have a party with black people drowning. — Yahoo News Washington bureau chief David Chalian, David Chalian on the Republican National Convention
29) [Obama]'s trying to pass a gun ban, so he's staging all of these murders, like the 'Fast And Furious' thing down at the border; [the massacre in] Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there; and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple.". — Dave Mustaine
28) I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are — they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country. — Bill Press
27) They want to put y'all back in chains! — Joe Biden
26) [The Right] have crappy sex lives, or they have really forced, coerced, nasty, you know, children, animals, what-have-you, people that they won't recognize legitimate citizen status for. You know, they have all these really weird, twisted sex lives and so they're shoveling their sh*t on us by projecting on our sex lives. — Elisabeth Fernandez-Kimmel, a Policy Advocate for the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance
25) Is he a brother, or is he a cornball brother? …He's black, he kind of does his thing, but he's not really down with the cause, he's not one of us. He's kind of black, but he's not really the guy you'd really want to hang out with, because he's off to do something else…. We all know he has a white fiancée. There was all this talk about he's a Republican, which, there's no information [about that] at all. I'm just trying to dig deeper as to why he has an issue. — Rob Parker on Robert Griffin III
24) If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen. — Barack Obama
23) The land on which they [the Founders] formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class….This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we've torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it's ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us. — Melissa Harris-Perry
22) It is a major crusade of mine and that is to get rid of the Star-Spangled Banner. Now I know you're going to say I am not a true American I'm not patriotic. I don't think patriotism has anything to do with it. The National Anthem is just absolutely monumentally un-singable. I mean there's so much wrong with it. I don't know where to start. It's an abomination. First it ranges two octaves most people can only do kind of one octave. I mean when you think about it, it's bombs bursting in air rocket's red glare it all kinds of, you know a lot of national anthems are that way, all kinds of military jargon and the land there's only one phrase 'the land of the free' which is kind of nice and 'the home of the brave?' I don't know," he said. "Are we [Americans] the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean all the brave people live here. I mean it's just stupid I think. I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed every time I hear it. — Bill Press
21) My period comes like twice a month. My eggs are jumping ship. Seriously, they're like, 'the last one out's a retard. I get worried about that, as an older woman, I don't necessarily want to have a retard. — Margaret Cho
20) Mitt Romney's rally in Mansfield, Ohio, on Monday began the way every political event begins. 'Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and our country's national anthem.' This is always an uncomfortable moment for me. While I sat at my laptop, most of the reporters around me stood and put their hands over their hearts. This time instead of just sitting and working, I tweeted what I was feeling: '@Ari_Shapiro: As a reporter I'm torn about joining in the pledge of allegiance/national anthem at rallies. I'm a rally observer, not a participant.' — Ari Shapiro
19) I get up every morning and think, today I'm going to make a difference. Today I'm going to end capitalism. Today I'm going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I'm back to work tomorrow, and that's the only way you can do it. — Bill Ayers
18) I hate to say it, but killing is our way. We began America with genocide, then built it with slaves. The shootings will continue. It's who we are. — Michael Moore
17) I am not basing (the claim Mitt Romney hasn't paid taxes) on some figment of my imagination. I have had a number of people tell me that. I don't think the burden should be on me. The burden should be on him. He's the one I've alleged has not paid any taxes. — Harry Reid
16) I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don't have our best interests [at heart]. — Jason Whitlock
15) (It's) very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words 'heroes.' I feel … uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. — Chris Hayes
14) And this is where it becomes difficult to honor the Roman injunction to speak no ill of the dead. It's difficult for me to assess Breitbart's impact upon American media and American politics as anything other than poisonous. When one of the leading media figures of the day achieves his success by his giddy disdain for truth and fairness–when one of our leading political figures offers to his admirers a politics inflamed by rage and devoid of ideas–how to withhold a profoundly negative judgment on his life and career? — David Frum
13) If we want to keep our reproductive rights, we must be willing to tell our stories, to be willing and able to say, "I love my life, but I wish my mother had aborted me." — Lynn Beisner
12) There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life. — Jeremiah Wright
11) We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go. — Marion Barry
10) That really bothered me. You notice (Romney) said anger twice. He's really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama, the 'otherization,' he's not like us. I know it's a heavy thing, I don't say it lightly, but this is 'niggerization.' — Touré
9) Palin's tweet made me come in my pants. — Andrew Sullivan
8) You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary… It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the US constitution – Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights. Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world? — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
7) First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama. Barack Obama. — Jamie Foxx
6) It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. — Todd Akin
5) I mean, I'd like to see (Mitt Romney's) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool – the Mormon fire patrol. — Joy Behar
4) (Obama needs to) "work like a 3rd world dictator & just put all these guys in jail." — Harry Belafonte on Republicans
3) My personal feeling is that, as a young kid that was beat on by a bully, that was pretty much singled out–the guy [Zimmerman] stalked him, didn't follow instructions from a superior officer, when they said, 'Stop following the kid.' That tells you everything right there. But my all-around perspective, I wasn't there, I don't know what happened. But it's just so widespread and overt what happened. Even though this is the best country in the world, certain laws in this country are a disgrace to a nation of savages. It's a majority versus a minority. That's the way God planned it. He didn't want to do something about it, He wanted us to do something about it. And if we don't, it's gonna stay this way. We have to continue tweeting, we have to continue marching, we have to continue fighting for Trayvon Martin. If that's not the case, he was killed in vain, and we're just waiting for it to happen to our children. He'll have gotten away with impunity. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been dragged out of his house and tied to a car and taken away. That's the only kind of retribution that people like that understand. It's a disgrace that man hasn't been shot yet. Forget about him being arrested–the fact that he hasn't been shot yet is a disgrace. That's how I feel personally about it. — Mike Tyson
2) Cheney deserves same final end he gave Saddam. Hope there are cell cams. — Rep. Chuck Kruger (D-Thomaston)
1) These teabag bastards, who by the way, I just wish they would all go away, or like in Passover, I just wish there was an angel of the Lord that would pass over, instead of killing the first born in all the households of Egypt, just wipe out all the teabaggers. Just, you know, the terrible swift sword, just (Malloy emulates sound of sword cutting repeatedly through the air) lop their heads off. — Mike Malloy
Also see,
The 50 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2011
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2010
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2009
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2008
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2007
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2006
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2005
The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes For 2004
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How Can I Use Intuition To Improve My Health & Wellbeing?
When Gloria's heart began to thump irregularly, she immediately sought the advice of her physician and learned that palpitations are often related to tension. Recognizing that she was overworked, Gloria decided to ask her intuition to guide her to a healthy lifestyle.
Surprisingly, her intuition did not start with her heart, but with her primary relationship. A week of daydream images about a vacation with Tom, her husband, culminated when she saw an ad for a Mexican condo rental. Tom was thrilled and, within a few weeks, they were off to their first real vacation in more than a decade.
When they returned, Gloria's rational mind kept telling her to resume her usual pace. But her intuition signaled no with a sick feeling in the stomach whenever she contemplated working more. After four months of listening to her intuition by selecting her work opportunities carefully and investing in her marriage, Gloria's palpitations were greatly reduced.
Gloria's body, mind, and spirit are healing, finding peace with a new work rhythm, and thrilled to be exploring her marriage anew. Gloria's body knew what she needed. All she had to do was pay attention.
Do you know that intuition lives in your body?
It is important to realize that intuition, like all human experience, is not outside of your body. Intuition lives in the body and likely has roots in your biology. Below are some examples.
- In attempts to understand why people often report picking up the phone before it rings or knowing who is on the line before they pick it up, the HearthMath Institute did a study in 2004 in which people were shown a series of images, most of which were peaceful and calming ( such as landscapes, cute animals, and trees). Randomly interspersed with these were violent and disturbing images, such as car crashes, bloody objects, and threatening animals. The researchers monitored the people's brainwaves, electrocardiograms and heart rate variability as they looked through the images. Interestingly, people's heart rate indicated an emotional response five to seven seconds before the emotionally disturbing images were displayed-their hearts appear to know in advance what is coming.
- People sometimes describe intuition as instant sensing. For example, they say "My gut told me something important would happen here" when entering a room, or "I sensed that my relationship with this stranger would be important in my life." In these cases, the experience of intuition is body-based. Note that a 2005 research article 'Thin-slices of life,' demonstrates that your intuition does often know the truth about a situation within seconds of your exposure to it.
- Did you ever meet someone who you recognized even though you had never met them? Neurologist Antonio Damasio's research suggests that this intuitive recognition is based on somatic markers, which are chemically based records of your emotional history encoded in your frontal lob. For example, you met a colleague Susan fifteen years ago and she became a close friend. Today, when you were introduced to Ellen, something about her reminded you emotionally of Susan, even though they don't look alike. Your somatic markers were automatically activated and you felt like you knew Ellen. You even asked her if you had met before.
- Intuition is also often associated with transcendental experiences. A Pennsylvania University team discovered that your brain's parietal lobe is relevant to the sense of boundlessness or mystical oneness common to intuitive experiences. Usually parts of the brain become more active during these experiences, but the parietal lobe, which is responsible for your sense of boundaries, becomes silent during the boundlessness associated with intuition and transcendency.
These biological discoveries suggest that intuitive impressions have biological roots. Your body is knowledgeable.
What insights can intuition bring?
As you become aware of and sensitive to your body's intuitive knowledge, you will be more aware of changing conditions in your body and better able to monitor your health challenges, guide your healthcare, and nurture your wellbeing.
Consider these examples, which represent the spectrum of intuitive experiences-from increasing wellbeing to saving lives.
Anne's intuition may have saved her life.
Anne, a high tech executive, has to work 14-hour days during project deadlines. She was feeling very tired during one of these periods, but dismissed it, considering her exhaustion normal for the circumstances. But one Friday afternoon, as she was driving home excited to see her daughter who had just arrived from London, her intuition urged her to check herself into the Emergency Room. "You are too tired." She argued with her intuition for a few minutes, but found her body driving towards the hospital.
Tests were run that night that showed Anne was bleeding internally due to a malignant tumor in her colon. Surgery was completed within the week and they found that the tumor was still well-contained. Anne is doing fine 3 years later.
Lesson: Listen when your intuition nags you about a health issue. Check its information out with healthcare providers.
Betsy's intuition guides her to multiple healing modalities in her struggle with inflammatory breast cancer.
Aware of a strange persistent rash on her breast for several weeks, Betsy turned to Google for some answers. Within a few hours, she diagnosed herself with inflammatory breast cancer and later learned that she was at 3.5 stage out of 4. Her prognosis was grim, but her intuition suggested a combination of conventional and complementary therapies.
To create her healing team, Betsy researched providers, then asked her inner self if this person would be a good fit. Eventually, her team included five physicians with diverse expertise, massage therapists, jyorei healing, Native American and Tibetan spiritual and medicine people, and a wide variety of prayer circles. Her physicians lead her through the traditional mastectomy, chemo therapies, and radiation, as well as advised a course of vitamins, supplements, and guided imagery tapes.
Throughout, Betsy listened to her intuitive body and took charge of the course of her care. If her body told her no more chemo or radiation this week, she stood her ground. She remains closely attuned to her body's mental, emotional, and spiritual energy.
Lesson: Do your research and tap into your intuition when choosing providers and therapies. Attune to your body's wisdom and take charge when necessary to serve your healing and wellbeing.
John's enhanced sensitivity to subtle messages leads to taking care of himself.
John had a history of cold sores which would suddenly make him ill for days. As his sensitivity and willingness to listen to his body's subtle chemical and intuitive messages grew, John learned to adjust his schedule and reduce stress before a cold sore could take over his life. In addition to noting stress, John's intuition helped him identify what thoughts, attitudes, or actions increased the risk of getting a cold sore.
Lesson: The skill of listening and being sensitive to your body's clues (intuitive and otherwise) can help you respond earlier to health challenges and may help you handle, reduce, or prevent their development.
Jane's dreams make a suggestion for her wellbeing.
Jane loves active outdoor vacations, such as canoeing and camping. When she began to have dream images of lying in a deck chair on a cruise, she thought they didn't fit. "I am not the cruise type," she told herself. But when her intuition continued to urge the cruise, she began to wonder what it meant.
Pondering the possibilities, Jane realized that she needed a vacation where she could completely relax and not take care of anyone. Jane let go of her preconceived ideas about how like this might come about. Later, when she and her husband took a canoe trip without children for the first time in years, Jane recognized the deep relaxation and restoration of her dream as she floated along on the water with no deadlines or people to take care of. Her intuition had been working on many levels at once, serving not only the wellbeing of Jane, but also that of her husband, and their marriage, and indirectly their children.
Lesson: When your intuition continues to call to you, give up preconceived ideas of the specifics and surrender to the meaning behind its advice. Intuition will take care of the details.
How can I work with my intuition for health and wellbeing?
Below are three practices you can begin immediately to tune into and enhance your body's intuition.
Practice # 1: Love and Appreciate Your Body
While most people aren't listening to their body, their body is listening to them!
Your body hears everything you say and think about it. So, think for a moment--what do you say about it? Do you criticize or even hate your body? How often do you thank, appreciate, and love your body?
Most people have things about their body that they don't like and they often focus on these aspects. But realize that your body is working on your behalf every second. It allows you to do activities you enjoy, to appreciate beauty and love, and to engage in millions of interactions. Minute-by-minute your cells are communicating; digesting and producing available energy; and cleaning and transforming your being. Your body is one of life's greatest achievements and worthy of great appreciation.
Remember also that intuition operates best in a caring atmosphere. Intuition travels on love. This is why people's greatest intuitions are about things they love. If you wish to use your intuition to improve your health and wellbeing, begin by expressing appreciation and love for your body everyday.
Practice # 2: Listen and Attend to Your Body
We listen to the people we love; we keep our minds on the things that we love.
Learning to listen to your body's clues is central to applying intuitive wisdom to health and healing. Listening and attending require you to do three things:
- Develop a still point inside you. With practice you will have access to your still point, regardless of what is happening in your life.
- Know your body's normal patterns in order to recognize and assess changes. Scanning techniques and conversations with your body help you establish knowledge about your body.
- Act on your body's messages within the parameters of common sense.
Practice # 3 Nourish and Grow Your Sensitivity
Intuition arises in multiple ways, but most of us have been trained out of hearing its voice. In fact, a 2003 study of school children found that intuitive skills dropped as children proceeded through elementary school.
Your intuitive body is a like a musical instrument. Just as it is hard to get music out of an untuned instrument, it is difficult to access intuition when your body is out of whack. Here are some clues for nurturing and growing your sensitivity.
- Stimulation: avoid constant work, television, media exposure, or activities that can numb you. Learn to slow down or stop. Cherish time in quietude.
- Exercise: intuition requires energy and alertness. Exercise elevates your circulation and reduces tension. Find a physical activity that you enjoy and do it three times a week.
- Rest: regular restoration of the body through relaxation and sleep keeps you alert to your body's signals. Make a conscious decision to sleep, nap, or relax when your body indicates a need.
- Food: while you wouldn't buy gasoline that revs your car engine to unsafe speeds, makes your car sputter along, or stalls your engine out, many people eat food that does just that to their bodies. Nourish your body's sensitivity to intuition with good food.
- Thoughts: medical research on stress shows that thoughts and emotions can directly impact your physical body. In addition, preoccupation with difficult or negative thoughts can result in bad moods and/or a reduced sense of wellbeing. Guard your mind; invest in thoughts that make a positive contribution to your life.
When trying to enhance your sensitivity to intuition, it may help you to apply some of the ideas of modern physics. The string theory suggests that the core building blocks of the universe and your body are miniscule vibrating strings. Think of your intuitive body as a vibrating, information-rich field that is in constant communication with the world around and within you.
In summary
Albert Einstein, a fan of intuition, stated: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift."
Intuition can contribute to your health and wellbeing in many ways, from potentially dramatically saving your life to guiding you to a more balanced lifestyle. If you learn to love and listen to your body, intuition serves your mind, body, and spirit.
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Emery, Marcia. (1999). The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician. St. Martin's Press. New York, NY.
Gendling, Eugene T. (1981). Focusing. Bantam. New York, NY.
LeShan, Lawrence. (1974). How To Meditate, A Guide to Self-Discovery. Little, Brown and Company. New York, NY.
Myss, Caroline. (1996). Anatomy of the Spirit. Harmony Books/ Crown Publishers, Inc. New York, NY.
Palmer, Wendy. (1994). The Intuitive Body: Akikido as a Clairsentient Practice. North Atlantic Books. Berkeley, CA.


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We have an extensive range of all Hardware and Building Supplies including; Plumbing, Timber, Gyprock and Cement sheeting, Lattice (plastic, pine & fibre cement), Outdoor Furniture, BBQ's, Paint, Power tools, Home wares, Small Appliances, Camping, Gardening and lots more.
We are a Wattyl Trade Paint outlet supplying the Trade and DIY market with Wattyl paints and coatings.
We are also distributors of Leatherman goods.
We service a large area of the Yorke Peninsula, including Maitland, Kadina, Wallaroo, Port Hughes and Moonta Bay.
Shippy's Hardware also has a sister store located at Burra in the Mid North of SA.
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Orig. by C.F. Zaiger, L.M. Gardner, G.N. Zaiger, and G.G. Zaiger, Modesto, CA. Plant Patent 6347; 25 Oct. 1988. Late-ripening nectarine x O'Henry o.p. Fruit: large; globose; light-red blush over bright-yellow ground color; flesh dark yellow with intense red at pit, ultra firm, melting, freestone. Ripens 21 days after O'Henry. Flowers large, pink, showy; leaf glands reniform. Tree: large; vigorous; productive.
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To get a character that has internal representation in Latin1 I could also use HTML::Entities::decode( 'ó' ) there with the same result. The output I get on 5.14.2 and 5.10.1 is:
When I check the dumped string - it has the right character encoded in Latin1 - and apparently eval expects UTF8 when
use utf8
is set. Without use utf8
eval works OK on it. If the internal representation of the initial character is UTF8 (like when the first line is my $initial = 'ó';
) - then the dumped string contains UTF8 (which is again might be interpreted incorrectly if the code does not have use utf8
Considering that Data::Dumper is a core module and one that is one of the most commonly used and that its docs say:
The return value can be evaled to get back an identical copy of the original reference structure.this looks like a serious bug.
Is that a known problem? Should I post it to the Perl RT?
Update: Removed the initial eval - "\x{f3}"
is enough to get the Latin1 encoded character. Some editing.
Update: I tested it also on 5.15.9 and it fails in the same way.
Update: I've reported it to the Perl RT - I am not sure about the severity chosen and the subject - this was my first Perl bug report.
Update: In reply to the ticket linked above Father Chrysostomos explains: "The real bug here is that 'eval' is respecting the 'use utf8' from outside it." and later adds that 'use v5.16' will fix the problem in 5.16.


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Snapchat doubled its Rest of World revenue this quarter. That's a surprise, considering CEO Evan Spiegel never seemed to care about anyone but U.S. teens. Snapchat's Android app was buggy. Its videos loaded too slowly on weak connections. And Spiegel even admitted "Historically we've really focused our efforts on markets where [high-end phones and broadband mobile networks] are available."
That left the door wide open for Instagram Stories and WhatsApp Status to steal the international market before Snap could arrive. In Q4 2016, Snapchat total users in the Rest of World stayed worryingly flat at 39 million.
But Spiegel changed his tune this year with a massive set of strategy flip-flops. Three months ago he admitted that "In order to further scale our user base, we need to accelerate the adoption of our product among Android users . . . and users in the Rest of World markets." This acknowledgement that more than California cool kids like him mattered now appears instrumental to the Second Coming of Snapchat.
Today, Snap Inc. recorded a blockbuster quarter, reviving its growth rate from 2.9 percent to 5 percent as it reached 187 million daily users. Revenue blew away expectations and losses shrank. And the share price soared up 21 percent in response.
Dig a little deeper, though, and it's clear where Snapchat's renewed strength came from. The developing world.
The Rest of World region added 3 million daily users to reach 47 million, just as many as the European and North American markets despite their larger size. That's more developing world users than it's added in any quarter since the frothy growth days of Q1 2016.
How did it add so many in countries across South America and Asia? First, Snapchat got serious about improving its Android app's performance. Back in its IPO filing, Snap wrote that "although our products work with Android mobile devices, we have prioritized development of our products to operate with iOS." But engineering advances led to a 20 percent increase in Android user retention, as fewer bugs kept users aboard. Spiegel said Snapchat now has its lowest crash rate ever.
Meanwhile, Snapchat launched partnerships with wireless carriers over a dozen markets to reduce the cost of all the data Snapchat scarfs up. "This is important because Snapchat can be more fun to use out in the world rather than at home on Wi-Fi," Spiegel said. Though these "zero-rating" deals can be controversial for net neutrality reasons, they can make it much easier to recruit users. Engineering improvements also made video Snaps and ads easier to stream.
All this extra usage in the developing world was paired with much stronger monetization. Average Revenue Per User in the developing world nearly doubled, from $0.30 to $0.56, with total revenue from the region doubling quarter-over-quarter, from $13 million to $26 million. Year-over-year, Snap grew Rest of World revenue a staggering 333 percent.
That's in part because 90 percent of Snapchat's ads are now bought through the programmatic Ads API and self-serve Ads Manager interfaces rather than through sales people, versus 10 percent a year before. That eradicates the language barrier.
COO Imran Khan explained that "Our self-service tools have also enabled us to quickly scale in international markets. For example, in the Middle East, we made the strategic decision to rely exclusively on our self-serve tools for Snap Ads . . . and out of all our international offices, this region was our top contributor to overall revenue growth in Q4." Code is the universal language, after all.
What we're seeing is Snapchat International. While U.S. teens still might monetize better than those abroad, there's a lot more scattered around the globe than here at home. It turns out kids everywhere want to chat and share without a permanent record. They weren't opposed to Snapchat. They just wanted it to work right.
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From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org) Date: Sun May 6 04:08:22 EDT 2007 |
Version 369.100 is now available for testing from http://pre.plt-scheme.org/installers/ (Note that this not available from the usual download site.) If all goes well, we will turn this version into a v370 release within a couple of weeks. This is (again) a release that is more substantial than usual -- * DrScheme now saves `metadata' in its files, which means that the language level and other settings are saved with the file. This is done with a reader, so the result is a file that can be used outside of DrScheme too. Also, this includes teachpacks, which are also specific to files. * The default build, and the distributed installers use the 3m precise garbage collector. * The unit system is completely new, and backward incompatible with v360 and earlier. There are libraries that provide the old functionality as a quick upgrading solution. Your help and feedback in testing this new release candidate would be much appreciated. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://www.barzilay.org/ Maze is Life!
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Hello everyone,
Sorry to make another topic within a few days, don't mean to clog the boards. I was wondering though, how would someone in the United States become a monk? I'm curious to how that would work. If anyone knows of a website or something to read on it I would appreciate it.
Hands together,
P.S. I'm a young man, and I don't plan on moving to the monestary... atleast not this month. :P
P.P.S. Now after Jukai who knows not I. All I know is that I'm sitting in a chair at home.


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Have periodic table towel will travel. That's Mount Vesuvius in the background. Lots of chemistry in a volcano.
I rather like H where I put it (above F) in the table but you may not!
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A BBC report on the August 2017 American Chemical Society meeting states 'Cyborg' bacteria deliver green fuel source from sunlight. To summarise, some bacteria deal with heavy metals such as cadmium by converting it to cadmium sulphide semiconductor crystals on their surfaces. These bacteria are then able to convert carbon dioxide + water + light into acetic acid with high efficiency.
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International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) have confirmed the names of elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 as:
This followed a 5-month period of public review after which the names earlier proposed by the discoverers were approved by IUPAC.
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A huge find of #helium gas in Tanzania may alleviate critical helium gas resources for some time. Helium is required for cooling NMR magnets and associated imaging instruments in medicine (MRI)
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Wondering why the most expensive diamond ever (the Oppenheimer Blue, £35 million) is blue – it is because of boron impurities, element 5 in the periodic table.
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A panel commentary in Nature Chemistry Commentary speculates upon the names that might be proposed for the four new elements in the periodic table. Worth a read, but we'll have to wait a while longer yet.
Abstract: "Of all the things humans can bestow names upon, new chemical elements are about the rarest. Our group of periodic table experts attempts to read the tea leaves and predict the names for elements 113, 115, 117 and 118."
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has provisional recommendations for the naming of new elements and the recommendations are open for comment until 29 February 2016.
IUPAC state "the most important change is that the names of all new elements should have an ending that reflects and maintains historical and chemical consistency. This would be in general "-ium" for elements belonging to groups 1-16, "-ine" for elements of group 17 and "-on" for elements of group 18."
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) announced IN January 2016 that the identification of the four new elements with atomic numbers 113, 115, 117, and 118 is verified and that the discoverers of elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 are invited to suggest names.
Element 113 has a temporary working (systematic) name and symbol: ununtrium, Uut. It was discovered by the RIKEN collaboration team in Japan who fulfilled the criteria for element Z=113.
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Tags: Element 113, Element 115, Element 117, Element 118, Ununoctium, Ununpentium, Ununseptium, Ununtrium
The media cover a story that scientists at the German Max Planck Institute produced a helium plasma contained for about a tenth of a second but at about 1000000 K. The next step at the Wendelstein 7-X (a stellarator fusion reactor) is to increase the stability of the plasma, to improve the heating method, and to increase the plasma temperature.
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Tags: deuterium, Helium, Hydrogen, nuclear fusion
Can you make your name, or any other word(s) come to that, from element symbols? Find out using this MyFunStudio script.
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Peru has a large and complex XO project, certainly the most varied anywhere, with its mix of rural and urban, powered and off-grid. Now they are adding local assembly of future laptops, something many countries have considered but few have carried out.
As noted recently, local assembly offers shorter startup times for production, and gives the deploying country more of a stake in the ongoing project.
Peru is being supported directly by Quanta, our factory in China, in this. Similar arrangements will be a bit easier now that the first one is underway, but this sort of arrangement is hard to work out unless the deployment team is planning for a steady flow of hardware delivered over years.
Nevertheless, this is a great step for olpc sustainability. Between Peru's interest in assembly, Uruguay's recent interest in design for new audiences, and Paraguay's interest in developing better software and OS builds, Latin American deployments are taking up shared ownership of most aspects of the project.
From their official announcement:
The project, in Alliance with the OLPC foundation of USA and Quanta Computer Corporation of Taiwan, was confirmed by Victor Raúl Diaz Chavez, the Minister of Education.
Peru, in a strategic alliance with the foundations of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), Sugar Labs of the United States, and Quanta Computer Corporation (the world's largest laptop manufacturer), which has factories in continental China, will be the first country (outside of China) to manufacture ARM based laptops, which is the most energy efficient processor in the world.
This makes the education in our nation the first in the world to apply the new concept of TIC: Technology for Innovation and Creativity, as a part of "One Laptop per Child,†said the Minister of Education, Victor Raúl Diaz Chávez.
The Minister mentioned that the alliance between the Ministers of Education and Production (in Peru), with OLPC (creators of the laptop) and Quanta computer (Which currently manufactures for brands like: Sony, Lenovo, Hewlett Packard and Apple) puts Peru at the frontiers of world technology.
The Peruvian counterpart of this crusade for quality education is the DELTRON Group, a Peruvian leader in the information market and the first to obtain certifications in ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2004, and OHSAS:18001:2007 for their integrated Management System for the manufacturing processes (Design and Assembly) of their computers, was selected by OLPC and Quanta to take charge of the local process. A group of Peruvian engineers works under the leadership of MIT and Sugar Labs Scientists in the "software†design, which controls the already famous XO laptop. "The user's guide, written by professor puneña Sdenka Salas has been translated into English and French for use around the world,†commented Walter Bender, Founder of the Sugar Labs and Senior Scientist at the MIT.
The One Laptop per Child foundation created by the renowned technology guru Nicholas Negroponte is a non-profit entity, which is sustained by people, enterprises and foundations to promote technologically adept learning for children in the developing world.
Sugar Labs is a foundation led by MIT Senior Scientist Walter Bender, who promotes the creation of the software as a tool for learning and will lead the work by the Peruvian engineers and teachers, who have already created versions of the software in Spanish, Quechua and Aymara.
The Massachusetts institute of Technology is a private Institution for higher education situated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with numerous Nobel Prize winners amongst its professors and alumni. The institution is considered one of the best research universities for science and engineering in the world. With a total of 32 academic departments, Its Media Lab, (founded by Negroponte) is a renowned around the world for its work in the investigation of learning and technology.
The use of educational technologies implemented by the Ministry of Education in all the regions of our Nation is complemented by the training that our educators received in the National Program for Permanent Education and training (Pronafcap), which to date, has attended to over 150,000 educators in the best universities of Peru.
The "One Laptop per Child†initiative by the Peruvian government will reach one million portable computers for children and young Peruvians in the current year.


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China Probes Yum Brands' KFC Over Safety Of Chicken Products
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(Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc's fast-food chain KFC was supplied with chicken in China that contained excessive amounts of antibiotics, said food safety authorities investigating allegations of tainted KFC products.
The finding by the Shanghai Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) deals a blow to KFC's reputation in China, where it is facing fierce competition from the likes of Taiwanese-owned fried chicken chain Dico and Japanese-style noodle chain Ajisen (China) Holdings Ltd. Yum Brands has forecast a drop in same store China sales in the fourth quarter.
Eight of the 19 batches of chicken samples Yum Brands sent to a testing laboratory in 2010 and 2011 contained overly high levels of antibiotics, the SFDA said in a statement on its Website late on Thursday.
An investigation is underway to determine whether Yum Brands had taken corrective measures at that time, and the Louisville, Kentucky-based company may face harsh penalties if the probe showed laws had been violated, the SFDA said.
Shares in Yum Brands have slumped 4 percent since December 18 when China's state television CCTV reported that some poultry suppliers in eastern Shandong province had fed chickens with anti-viral drugs and hormones to accelerate their growth.
The SFDA is looking into the CCTV report and has not released its findings yet, but authorities in Shandong have already shut two chicken farms in eastern China, including one that supplied KFC and McDonald's Corp, the official Shanghai Daily newspaper reported on Thursday.
Officials at Yum Brands in China could not be immediately reached for comment.
KFC's subsidiary in China has pledged to cooperate with the authorities, while McDonald's wrote on its official microblog that its chicken and raw materials pass through independent, third-party laboratory tests.
Shares in Yum Brands, which also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, closed 1 percent lower at $69.49 in New York on Thursday.
China has been trying to stamp out health violations that have dogged the country's food sector amid reports of fake cooking oil, tainted milk and even exploding watermelons. In 2008, milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine killed at least six children and sickened nearly 300,000.
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For all the protection and peace of mind gutters provide, they don't ask for much in return. If you keep them clean, stable, solid and rust-free, they should keep water off the house and out of the foundation. Eventually, of course, they will need to be replaced, but here is a guide for when and how to repair gutters, and when and how to gut them and start over.
When and How to Repair
The following gutter problems need to be addressed quickly, but should not require a full replacement.
• If water is dripping out of a small number of puncture holes, you can fill them with specialized silicon gutter and flashing caulk.
• For larger holes, thoroughly brush or cut away any rust and patch with roofing cement and a repair patch, if necessary. Be sure to buy a patch of the same metal as your gutters. If you try to patch steel with aluminum, for example, the metals are likely to corrode each other.
• Leaky gutter seams can also be filled with gutter and flashing caulk. If you can't see any rust or other problems, the caulk on the seams likely wore out.
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Gutters need to be patched or re-attached quickly before they start to warp and sag and before the rust spreads, so be sure to inspect the gutter lines at least twice per year.
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• Vinyl is the cheapest, but it contracts and expands with the weather, and has seams. This all means it won't last as long, and requires more maintenance.
• Copper and wood may be particularly attractive, but also are the most expensive options.
• Galvanized steel is strong and durable, but is prone to rust.
• Aluminum gutters are not quite as strong as steel, but are more rust-resistant. Many gutter installers have a specialized machine in their trucks that can make seamless aluminum gutters to custom lengths on site. To save some money, find a contractor willing to make and sell the gutters on site, but allow you to install them.
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If you were one of the lucky ones who had a Sega Genesis growing up, you probably know about the ultraviolent and hilarious 1993 game Mutant League Football. This gory take on the standard football games of the time was so well received, it spawned a whole line of toys, a cartoon, a comic, and a spinoff game for those who prefer their monsters smashing skulls in a game of hockey. In an era where sports titles reigned supreme, it was a subversive, satirical and supremely fun twist on the traditional formula. Then, like that, it disappeared into the ether.
If you happen to be one of the many loyal fans of Mutant League Football, rejoice: the original creator is back and crowdsourcing a brand new game: the similarly-named Mutant Football League. Michael Mendheim has assembled a rock star team of artists, game designers, writers and other creative types to breathe new life into the once (un)dead game. This crack team includes, but is not limited to, comic book illustrator Dave Elliot (of Redwall fame), game studio Robomodo (Big League Sports: Kinect), and potentially even you. One of the very cool perks for this Kickstarter is that if you donate the right funds, you can be immortalized in the new game as an in-game character with your own voiced-over catch phrase and even the chance to design plays for both offense and defense.
According to the Kickstarter page, players will be able to go up against their friends or on their own in single games, play-offs, and full seasons. Sports-averse gamers (I know you're out there), fear not: this is looking to be a lot more than your standard football game. With the addition of obstacles, weapons, hazards and "dirty trick plays," the new Mutant Football League is sure to be a crowd pleaser for both football fans and monster enthusiasts, and bridge the gap between the two.
Are you digging the idea of a Mutant League Football revival? Head on over to the Kickstarter page to find out all the details and perks, and be sure to quemment or tweet about why you're looking forward to the game getting made!


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Cornwall Campus Culture Festival
Cornwall Campus hosts creative festival
Heritage, innovation and creativity will be explored in a one-day culture festival at the Cornwall Campus, Penryn on Sunday 20 May.
The Tremough Campus Culture Festival will feature Tony Robinson from the BBC's Time Team.
Robinson will discuss his experience of discovering an Iron Age Settlement in Cornwall and his career in comedy as Baldrick from the TV series Blackadder. Other speakers include visual artist Alan Cotton, who will talk about painting the world's highest mountain on a recent trip to Everest.
The festival forms part of the Daphne du Maurier Festival which runs through most of May. Professor Helen Taylor, the University's Arts and Culture Fellow co-programmed the Daphne du Maurier Festival and developed the University cultural festival which forms the last day of the main literary festival. Professor Taylor said: "The University has contributed speakers and programming to the Du Maurier Festival since its inception 15 years ago, and we are delighted to extend the Festival's profile to our Cornwall campus. 15 University of Exeter academics are speaking at both festivals, and in the Tremough Culture Festival we will present distinguished speakers and cutting-edge talks of general interest to our community in the Falmouth and Penryn area."
Academics from the University of Exeter will lead sessions entitled 'Healthcare and Well being – Can the ancient world help us?' and 'Heritage, Innovation, Place and Creativity in Cornwall'. Julia Twomlow (Director of the Leach Pottery, St Ives) and Michael Bird (Art Historian and author of St Ives Artists: a Biography of Place and Time) will join University of Exeter geographers Dr Nicola Thomas and Dr David Harvey to explore the heritage of the arts and crafts in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Dr Thomas said: "It is an exciting time to have a conversation about the relationship between past and present creativity. Cornwall has a rich art, design and craft heritage and continues to support contemporary artists and designer-makers today. In our conversations we are going to explore how past and present creativity is negotiated, and hope that the audience will join in the discussion."
Carleen Kelemen, Director of the Convergence Partnership Office for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said, "I once read that understanding our roots and our heritage gives us a greater understanding of our values and our potential. I'm looking forward to looking back through the eyes of the speakers to celebrate our heritage and creativity. How appropriate that the festival is hosted at the Cornwall Campus wherein sleeps an ancient bronze settlement."
The festival also highlights the centenary year of the legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie whose songs about the 1930s Great Depression in America resonate with today's current financial crisis. Songs about the challenging conditions of working class people in the Dust Bowl will be performed in an illustrated talk about Guthrie's life and politics.
Running between 10.15am and 6.00pm, the Tremough Campus Culture Festival is a collaboration between the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth who share and jointly manage the Cornwall Campus.
Tickets for the one-day festival are priced at £19 (standard full day), £10 (standard half day, AM/PM) and £5 (students). All tickets include refreshments.
For full programme details and to book tickets, please contact the Daphne du Maurier Festival Box Office on 01726 879500.
Date: 16 May 2012


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Though written and directed by a Pulitzer Prize winner, Original Sin is better known as the picture in which a naked Angelina Jolie (by then a certified Oscar winner) and Antonio Banderas do the horizontal mambo. And for good reason—the long-delayed film has little else to hang its hat on, its afterlife assured mostly by that word that gives every home-video marketer a woody: "unrated." Based on the 1947 Cornell Woolrich novel Waltz into Darkness (previously filmed as François Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid), Original Sin is a little bit exotic period piece, a lot noir, but Cristofer and his cast never quite get it together.
Strangely, Original Sin has in common with the later anti-rom-com (500) Days of Summer the promise that "This is not a love story, but it is story about love." Banderas plays Luis Vargas, owner of a coffee plantation in late nineteenth-century Cuba. Looking to fit the last piece into his orderly life, Vargas arranges for a dowdy American mail-order bride. When Angelina Jolie arrives and announces herself to be the American, Julia Russell, it's a bizarre reversal on the disappointment felt by internet chatters who meet in person: according to Julia, she sent Luis a photo of a less attractive woman to assure herself that her new husband was more than superficial. He, too, has lied, obscuring his wealth for the same reason. "Then we have something in common," says Julia. "Neither one of us can be trusted." Wink wink, nudge nudge. The two marry and, after a bit of teasing, Julia imprints herself around Luis' manhood. But a trip to the theater to see an American touring company performing Faust becomes one in a series of concerning incidents for Luis: his wife is super-hot, but can she be trusted? Of course not, and matters take a turn for the worse with the arrival of private investigator Walter Downs (Thomas Jane).
By transplanting the story from New Orleans to Cuba, Cristofer gives the proceedings a bit of added flavor and, in concert with cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto (Brokeback Mountain), some visual mood (jazz-based composer Terence Blanchard adds some aural mood). But Cristofer's script proves fatally incapable of smoothing out the whiplash character turns and making sense of the big picture: it's incredible in the worst sense of the word. Banderas' performance is a compromise: to make Original Sin make more sense, the admittedly naive and crotch-led Vargas would have to be more weak-willed and quivering than Banderas (and presumably Cristofer and the studio) is willing to make him, which would also give the character more room to grow from putty in Julia's hands to a man willing to commit serious moral crimes to keep her. Jolie's performance totally lacks in nuance—it's a self-parodic salute to her own lips (after the film-opening mouth closeup, the rest of her bodacious bod almost seems an afterthought) but in no way willing to investigate character conflict; that may be a valid choice, but Julia hardly expresses a hint of concern when she's forced to rethink her plans, which is often. Only Jane is allowed to strike a note of ambiguity—sexual ambiguity that's exploited for maximum squirm but minimum import to character or story. Still, naked movie stars. Am I right?
MGM gives Original Sin its Blu-ray debut with a mediocre transfer that's still an improvement over DVD: the image has a tendency to run soft (partly due to the source, methinks), but this also appears to be an old hi-def transfer, and those sensitive to such things will notice the picture is at times flecked with dirt. Generally speaking, the picture remains handsome and film-like, with credible color and contrast and improved detail, but it's not even close to the most sharp and dimensional picture you're going to find on Blu-ray. The lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround mix is also a bit dated in its construction, but rear channels are engaged from time to time for ambience, and dialogue is clear.
The DVD bonus features return, beginning with commentary by director Michael Cristofer. Cristofer, also an actor, does a decent job of filling out this track with information about the film: he's interesting enough to give this a spin, for those who care to know more about the source material, his approach in adapting it, the location work, and the actors. Also on the disc are the music video "'You Can't Walk Away from Love' by Gloria Estefan" (1:47, SD) and the "Original Theatrical Trailer" (2:09, HD).
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